A 58-year-old airport worker was charged Friday with illegedly planning a suicide bombing at a passenger terminal at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport in Kansas.avionics technician arrested earlier in the day as he attempted to use his security pass to drive a vehicle that he thought contained explosives onto the tarmac at the airport, law enforcement officials said at a news conference in Wichita. In fact, the car contained only dummy explosives.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Loewen spent months developing a plan to drive a carload of explosives to the airport terminal and that he was determined to trigger the bomb himself and die in the blast.